Three years ago, when I began my blog What Would Martha Cook?, I began thinking and dreaming of a program that would allow women to plan their menus, using a drag and drop system into a calendar–then print up their menu, recipes and grocery list.  My heart was to help families across the country plan their menus on a tight budget, like ours, and keep their spending down. With a family of six, we had a budget of $250 every two weeks. Every dollar saved made a huge difference to us.  So I began a system of menu planning.

I sat with my recipe books, pen and legal pad, planned my two-week menu (including leftover meals) and wrote out my grocery list.  I love the process of this, but it took me 1-2 hours to plan.  As a busy mom and wife, I found that I often ran out of time and didn’t do it as thoroughly as I’d like–and shortcuts meant less savings.  So I dreamed of a program that would do it for me—saving time and money. However, I knew that I did not understand enough about programming to create such a thing on my own. So I started asking other web developers out there about this idea.  No one knew how to do it—or said it would take a lot of effort to get it done.

Three years ago, Clint began creating and writing the code for just such a system.  He wrote it to aid his wife in her meal planning.  And it grew into a wonderful system called Plan to Eat. And you know what?  Plan to Eat is just the system (and more!) of which I had dreamed. Clint put hours and hours and hours into writing the program. Then he made it available to others!

As Trish and I have been talking and dreaming about A Martha Heart for over two years, we have continually given one another ideas—and these are ideas upon which the whole of this site is constructed and built.  A few months ago, Trish sent me a link to Clint’s site.  I checked it out and rejoiced over how marvelous it is.  I began asking Clint questions and we began to dialogue and brain-storm—we even found he lives not far from us here in Colorado. So we are teaming up with Clint and Plan to Eat here in our Kitchen!

We will still offer and share all the articles and recipes here, but we have an addition that we think you will love!

Clint is offering our readers a 30-day trial to see if this system is something that you would utilize.  After that, the yearly subscription is $39. And let me tell you, your time is valuable and menu planning will certainly save you money.  So this system will pay for itself within your first couple of grocery trips. Sounds marvelous, doesn’t it? I think so!

An added benefit is that this will also be set up as a social community, group, through A Martha Heart.  We can share our own favorite recipes with one another. As a community, we can share and discuss and help one another with our menus.  I tell you, I want to know what Sharon, Amy and Donna are cooking. They are marvelous cooks!

Another benefit is that this will also provide referral fees that will flow back into A Martha Heart, so that we may pay for all aspects of the site, do some giveaways (big and small) and sponsor and give to other ministries in which we believe and want to promote.

This is definitely what I call a win-win!  And it is a dream come true for me, too. There is no obligation to you at all. However, if you are interested, you may begin today with a 30-day free trial to see how it fits into your meal planning. If it works, great!  Get a subscription. If it doesn’t and like my friend Sophie, you’d rather plan it all the old way, because it delights you, then that is fine.  I totally understand that.

To begin, Go HERE: http://www.plantoeat.com/signup/0fmoirsvk1?g=1 and sign up today.

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